Why Neurodivergent Adults Struggle With Friendship—and What Actually Helps

The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi · Mar 31, 2026 · 31m

High school ends and the built-in social structure disappears. For neurodivergent adults that transition does not just feel hard — it can feel like falling off a cliff into a world that was never designed for the way they connect. Dating apps, networking events, social media — all of it built around neurotypical social scripts that feel exhausting to perform and hollow when they work. Jamie Pastrano co-founded Synchrony specifically because she saw that gap and could not find anything filling it. What she shares about why neurodivergent adults struggle with friendship in ways that are…